Don Haskins, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (formerly Texas Western College), has passed away at the age of 78 due to heart failure. 
Haskins served as the university’s head coach from 1961 to 1999. In 1966, his underdog team beat the University of Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship. That win was especially notable because Hawkins only played his team’s seven black players. Hawkins’ said that he didn’t consider the color of his players’ skin when making the selection, only their …